Well, sort of. To be fair, I’d probably have stayed on the runway better if I’d remembered to put my gear down! Couldn’t see a thing, it was in the middle of mountains and there were no navaids. And no ASI, of course. Nor lift. Quite exciting! (This is somewhere in Oregon, after I foolishly conjured up a snowstorm at Crater Lake to see how pretty it looked).
I assumed the point of synthetic vision is exactly in helping a pilot during low visibility conditions
That looks really cool! But ye landing gear is quite important haha
I assumed the point of synthetic vision is exactly in helping a pilot during low visibility conditions
Yeah, it is, but to avoid big mountains, rather than to land on a tiny mountain strip when you don’t know if there are trees or hills in the way. If my wings hadn’t been so iced up I would have gone to an airport with ILS, because then you know there’s a safe glidepath. Instead I had to come in like a helicopter!
Plus it was fun to try it! I wonder whether anyone’s done it in real life? All my real flying has been VFR and “maybe a bit misty” is the worst viz I’ve ever had to contend with…